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Our Good London project sets out a bold vision for a better city. The project brought together citizens from all across London, to discuss, decide and determine the shape of their city. The solutions point to a radically different future for London - one that is more equal, collaborative and...

I cannot have been alone in my reaction to last week's Autumn Budget announcements from Philip Hammond in which the government promises that underpinned the austerity agenda for the last six years were at last pronounced officially dead. What I couldn’t stop thinking about was the huge toll...

Mark Perryman outlines what Great Britain’s Olympic success does, and does not, mean
Team GB’s second place in the Rio medals table is nothing less than staggering. It is only 20 years ago that the squad returned with a solitary Gold from Atlanta ’96 clinging on to 36th in the table....

One of the memorable features of growing up in a small country town was the Bank Manager. He, for it was invariably a man, held an esteemed position: authoritarian but kindly, helpful but full of common sense, an adviser and a friend. Of course bank managers were phased out long ago but now

"They were careless. They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together and let other people clean up the mess they had made".

Compass are delighted to announce the launch of a huge piece of work on why we need a Universal Basic Income and how it could be introduced.
Come and join the authors Howard Reed and Stewart Lansley, with Ursula Huws, Shadow Chancellor John Mcdonnell, Labour MP Jonnie Reynold and Baroness...

Howard Reed and Stewart Lansley discuss the growing demands for a UBI and how it could be introduced in the UK. You can read and download the full piece here or see below for an excerpt. Please let us know what you think by leaving your comments, or alternatively if you are interested in...

The Centre for Welfare Reform and its allies have, for some time, been concerned with the state of social care in the UK. This is not just a matter of the severe cuts that have fallen on local government services. Even more fundamentally our society is failing to value and respect the positive...

This article first appeared on openDemocracyUK
Since the global financial crisis, tax justice has been rising up the political agenda. In the context of austerity, reporting on corporate and celebrity tax avoidance has achieved unprecedented levels of media coverage. For NGOs campaigning...

Despite New Labour’s investment in education, and the gains made by the London Challenge, the achievement gap remains. A flurry of calls for new measures from Nick Clegg and Tristram Hunt is welcome, but they are silent on the central issue – the vital need to treat education as...

One of the most insidious trends of postwar Britain has been the transformation of the car from a toy for rich people to the dominant feature of our environment. This can be seen on main roads with 24 hour traffic noise, on residential streets with wall to wall parking, and in rural areas where...

The largest excluded minority is seldom mentioned in political debates. It consists of around one third of people in the world, one fifth in the UK, and almost one half of people in some African states. This minority is children and young people aged under 18 years.
If children are...

This article originally appeared on openDemocracy: Our NHS
Any meaningful cross-party discussion about the future of our NHS ought to be an opportunity to fully explore reinstating it as a genuine public service – publicly paid for and publicly provided.
That means ending the inefficient...

This Compass document is written in the tone of mediation and optimism that has characterised Compass work, and has been a major element of its attraction and effectiveness. While I still value Compass and its principles, I’m afraid my offering is no longer in this vein.
The context: the...

The numbers are gobsmacking, when spelt out in today’s Guardian/King’s Fund research. They expose how much money is missing from the NHS. As our reports from the frontline reveal, the wonder is that the NHS continues to care brilliantly for most...

In the looming Labour Party debate over Trident the loudest voices are likely to be twofold. On the one hand will be those taking a fundamental moralistic objection to any nuclear weapons; on the other hand will be those claiming that nuclear disarmament is electoral suicide because it will be...